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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: UNITED NATION 419 VICTIMS COMPENSATION 2007
<unitednation_compensation011@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 04:39:52 +0100
Subject: UNITED NATIONS 2007 SCAMMED VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENTS.





UNITED
NATIONS 2007 SCAMMED VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENTS.

ATTN: Sir,

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the United
Nations mandated to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $ 1 Million each, you are
listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims, get back
to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $1 Million
compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the
last UN meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed by the rest of the
world on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the scams artists operating
in syndicates all over the world today especially Nigeria and some other
African countries, in other to retain the good image of their country, united
nations is now paying $ 1 Million USD each to affected victims, The payments
are to be paid by FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA with HSBC BANK LONDON branch as
corresponding intermediate paying bank under funding assistance by the United
Nations.

According to the number of applicants and victims, we are payment to
the last batch of 100 victims which you are one of them, half of the victims
are from the United States and others from Europe and other parts of the world,
we still have more 14 left to be paid the compensations of $1 Million each
which you are one of them.

Your particulars was mentioned and gotten from one of the syndicates
who was traced and arrested in Lagos former capital Nigeria, as one of their
victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or
duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever, the US secret
service is already on trace of the criminal.

For more vital information, please visit:
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm


You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options
you choose, DRAFT PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS, I shall feed you with further
modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Send a copy of your response to HSBC BANK official
email: (info.hsbc_bank@infohq.com
)

Yours faithfully,

MR.IYAMAH SYLVANIUS.
UNITED NATION REPRASENTITVE




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